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A study by the author claims to prove that real estate development firms linked to members of the Politburo were able to buy land much more cheaply (less than half price) than their rivals, and the politicians who sold the land were much more likely to...https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3097830/has-xi-jinpings-anti-corruption-campaign-been-effective-chinas-land?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=share_widget&utm_campaign=3097830 …
...be promoted. This is pretty much what everyone would have expected, although I was surprised by the amount of the "discount". The author also argues that while Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign probably hasn't eliminated the problem, it has substantially reduced it.
For those interested in following up, the original paper is Chen, Ting and James Kai-sing Kung. 2019. “Busting the ’Princelings’: The Campaigns against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134(1): 185-226.
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